WSP10624

• File Number: 8271.300
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - General Information and Publications-Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/1/1981
• Title: Role of Sediment in Non-Point Source Salt Loading Within the Upper Colorado River Basin
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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LIST OF FIGURES

Map of the Upper Colorado River Basin showing locations
of study areas. . . ..

Diagram depicting the sources of solutes and their trans-
port paths. . . ... . .

Contribution of solute loads from diffuse and point
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View of Mancos Shale 'desert'

Average annual precipitation and evaporation in the Green
River Basin . . .,. .

Average annual precipitation and evaporation in the Grand
River Basin . ., . . .. . ,

Average annual precipitation and evaporation in the San
Juan River Basin, . .. "

Outcrops of Mancos Shale in the Colorado portion of the
Grand River Basin . . ..

Quality of surface water in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Water quality stations
Colorado River Basin, .

in the Utah section of the Upper

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2.1 Flow cylinder designed to vary flow rates over Mancos Shale 22

2.2 Temporal variation of EC for weathered Mancos Shale in
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Temporal variation of EC for unweathered crushed Mancos
Shale in cylinder experiment, . , .., .

Temporal variation of EC for unweathered rocks of Mancos
Shale in cylinder experiment. . " . .

Variation of average EC with average flow velocity for the
cylinder experiments .

EC VB time at a 1:20 sediment:water ratio-jar test No.1.

EC VB time at a 1:8 sediment:water ratio-jar test No.2

EC VB time at a 1:4 sediment:water ratio-jar test No.3

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